The World's Smallest Snake

Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University, USA, says he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches long.


Hedges said the snake, called Leptotyphlops carlae, is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and so diminutive it can curl up on a U.S. quarter, is the smallest of the roughly 3,100 known snake species.